Exclusive | Mamdani shuttering homeless drop-in center for 1 reason sending people onto the streets amid a spiraling crisis

There may be a homelessness epidemic, but New York City’s lefty mayor is leaving those in Midtown East on the streets. The city announced in April that the Department of Homeless Services would not renew a contract for Mainchance, a homeless drop-in center at 120 E.32nd St., after its June 30 expiration.

The facility is slated to close that day. “Its clients will be forced to wander the streets, hoping to find shelter at other already crowded facilities in other neighborhoods,” Mainchance says in a newly filed Manhattan Supreme Court petition.Mainchance received the notice just days after the city sent a letter complaining that Mainchance violated its contract by turning clients away.The facility says it didn’t get a chance to contest the claims or rectify the issues, per court documents. Mainchance, its not-for-profit operator Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services and one of its clients claim in their petition the infractions are “not a reasonable basis for terminating the Mainchance contract, especially given the absence of any plans by DHS to otherwise provide services for homeless people in this neighborhood being displaced by Mainchance’s closure.”The matter is already causing concern for homeless individuals who rely on Mainchance’s services.Fritz Paul, 29, has slept in a chair at Mainchance for about four months as he awaits a housing voucher — and, he said, as he awaits the start of a new job at chicken finger chain Raising Cane’s.

News of the closure upsets him.“In the name of Jesus I’m getting my voucher before this place shuts down,” he told The Post as he entered the drop-in center on Wednesday afternoon.If he doesn’t receive his voucher, he added, “I don’t know what area they will send me [to].”For 62-year-old Sherry McLoy, Mainchance “is needed” due to the economy.“Unless you are wealthy, we are all one paycheck away from my situation,” she told The Post.She lost her husband of 35 years in 2023, then...